"MIIS Password Management" Webinar Archive
Password management can have an enormous impact on your organization, stretching far beyond the desks of your individual users. Listen-in as NetPro CTO Gil Kirkpatrick is joined by guests Steve Plank, Infrastructure Architect at Microsoft and Steve Booth, Director at the Oxford Computer Group, for an interactive presentation offering expert advice and real-life insight to help you ensure a safe and compliant network through effective password management using Microsoft's Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003. View the recorded webcast or download the slides today.

Webinar Archive: "Active Directory Risk Analysis"
Listen-in as NetPro CTO Gil Kirkpatrick hosts part one of NetPro's four-part educational webinar series to help you drive organization-wide security and compliance with Active Directory and MIIS. In "A Structured Approach to AD Risk Analysis," Gil discusses such critical topics as security and regulatory compliance and Active Directory, identifying and classifying threats to AD, calculating and prioritizing AD risks, and determining how to handle AD risks. Click here to view the recorded webinar or download the slides today.

The "Definitive Guide to AD Disaster Recovery" - FREE from NetPro & HP
Make sure the most critical component of your Windows network - Active Directory - is there when you need it. Learn how to create a powerful disaster recovery plan for your environment with an exhaustive new document that'll put most whitepapers on the subject to shame! FREE from NetPro and HP, the "Definitive Guide to Active Directory Disaster Recovery" is written by Gil Kirkpatrick, CTO at NetPro, and Guido Grillenmeier, Senior Consultant of Enterprise Microsoft Services at Hewlett Packard. It's jam-packed with insight and expertise to help you protect your AD environment with everything from threat analysis best practices to risk assessment and authoritative restore techniques. Click here to download your copy.

Plus, listen-in as Gil and Guido's discuss real-life disaster scenarios and share tips and techniques to help ensure that your business stays profitable in the midst of directory disruptions in their recent webinar, "Masters of Disaster." Click here to view the recorded Webcast or you can also download the slides.

Microsoft DNS Misconfiguration Ranks as #1 Cause of AD Failure
In an October 2005 online survey, NetPro CTO Gil Kirkpatrick asked "What is the most popular cause of AD failures?" The winner and defending champion is the inadvertent misconfiguration of Microsoft DNS. (Surprisingly, this is the same answer we received in a similar survey nearly two years ago!) Click here to see how you measure up to your peers by checking out the AD Failure Survey, then share your thoughts with the AD community in NetPro's Directory Experts Forum.

And if DNS misconfiguration is an issue for you, check out "DNS Best Practices for Building a Resilient Active Directory Infrastructure," a free webinar from NetPro CTO Gil Kirkpatrick and Cricket Liu of Infoblox. View the recorded webinar today.

Tackle DNS Security and Compliance Head On
Are regulations weighing you down? In a new article, NetPro's CTO Gil Kirkpatrick shares first-hand experience and tips to guide your security and compliance efforts. Active Directory is the core component of your Windows network security, and DNS is absolutely critical to proper Active Directory function & now learn how to control and manage DNS with the same diligence and rigor that you manage Active Directory. Learn More Here

Getting Active Directory Ready for An IT Audit
Thanks to the array of regulations put forth in recent years, auditing and compliance is one of the hottest topics in IT today. Yet, many IT professionals still struggle to apply the guidelines and understand the implications of the regulations on their own IT focus areas. Active Directory engineers and operators are no different. That's why NetPro has created a webinar series called "Getting Active Directory Ready for an IT Audit." Co-hosted by Deloitte and CIGNA, the webinars are now available for download by clicking on the below links.

Download the slides from the first webinar here (242K .pdf file).
View the webinar here (6.5MB .wmv file).

Download the slides from the second webinar here (173K .pdf file).
View the webinar here (5.8MB .wmv file).

Download the slides from the third webinar here (99K .pdf file).
View the webinar here (5.8MB .wmv file).

How NetPro Gets You Ready for Your Sarbanes Audit
NetPro builds award-winning solutions to manage the Active Directory infrastructure. And many of them -- including our SecurityManager and ChangeAuditor software -- provide extensive value when it comes to preparing and reporting for an IT audit. This matrix details how NetPro's Active Directory management software helps you to achieve Active Directory-related Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, based upon COBIT Control Objectives.

DEC 2005 Attendee Survey -- Results White Paper Now Available
NetPro's Directory Experts Conference 2005 attracts Active Directory and MIIS users from the leading companies in the world. And for the third year in a row, those users weighed in on the trends, issues and concerns that impact them most. From top priorities in the management arena to best practices and usage trends, you'll find the results of their feedback in the below DEC attendee survey results white paper. Download the PDF today!

Leveraging Your AD Investment: Using Saved Queries
Did you know you can gather "state based" Active Directory information using native tools with Windows 2003 enhancements? Everything from "Show me locked user accounts" and "Show me disabled users" to "Show me mailbox enabled users" can be obtained using a different queries, and we've consolidated a host of the most useful ones here for you. Read "Leveraging Your AD Investment: Using Saved Queries" today and learn how to get the information you need now, without additional tools.